Starting to look like it.
http://news.moviefone.com/2014/12/18/worst-movies-of-2014/#slide=3211956
I dunno.
It's up against some pretty stiff competition.
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Nowhere close... Transformers 4 and 22 Jump Street are my picks. This was a decent indie horror flick
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Go watch Beast Wars if you want a good TransFormers story.
shareGo watch fast and furious if you want mindless pointless action
T4 was easily the worst movie of 2014. Easily. It was the very definition of midless pointless action.
shareAt least in T4 and 22 Jump Street you can actually see what's happening and the villains aren't done in CGI that seems like it was pulled straight out of Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. The Pyramid is the cinematic equivalent of cancer.
shareWoah there.
There's nothing wrong with this movie, seriously. It's a topnotch B-movie; you can't expect to be mind=blown by something like this. You just watch it on a dreary night.
I really don't understand the 4.8 score. It should at least be a 5.5 or something. It was very similar to movies such The Ruins or As Above So Below in quality of storyline and acting. Nothing unequivocally terrible.
I guess a lot of it has to do with this ungrounded hatred against Found Footage movies that seems to be present on IMDB. Which I also do not understand. I'm having a hard time enjoying "normal" filmed horror movies ever since I got into Found Footage horror...
I guess I'm just weird.
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I think the general hatred for "found footage" movies is that most of them are completely illogical from the video aspect.
Firstly, unless the characters are wearing cameras (specifically wearing, not carrying them in their hands), a lot of the footage is impossible to have been recorded in the first place.
Secondly, if you only have one character with a camera, do not use multiple angles of shots, and don't magically have the entire cast visible in scenes where there is clearly someone holding the camera filming them. Easy to solve in the story, introduce multiple camera holders, or have them put the camera down before getting into shot.
Thirdly, proper modern cameras like the action GoPro, DSLRs and consumer-level HD camcorders have image stabilizers built in. There is no excuse for seasickness-inducing wobble in your shots unless you are running around very rough ground.
Now I'd love to see a "found footage" movie made using the concept that all the action was pieced together from the CCTV cameras all over a city.
I'd love to see a "found footage" movie made using the concept that all the action was pieced together from the CCTV cameras all over a city.
They've done that already. I forgot the name of the movie, but the entire movie, which tells 3 seperate stories throughout, is all from the view of CC cameras.
shareLate to reply, and I agree with your overall assessment (though I'm still a sucker for FF movies).
A movie you might like (and that another poster couldn't remember the name of) is Look. Shot entirely through surveillance cameras (CCTV, shopping malls, gas stations, etc.). It's pretty good. Not well known, and you won't find it on Netflix (not for streaming at least, and it's not on YT. You're best bet is either to buy it or scrounge up a torrent for it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810951/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I enjoy found footage films as well and I personally liked The Pyramid. If people "know" they don't like found footage films, then why in the world do they go watch them?
shareI agree with you.
I enjoyed the Pyramid a lot.
The death scenes are memorable and the plot was interesting.
There were a few problems with the plot, like how Anubis would get so far out in the light, but that's just a minor detail.
I guess he could escape any time he wanted throughout the centuries.
I am unsure if he's really trapped.
Still, this film was very scary in a lot of the parts.
Indie? The Pyramid was released by 20th *beep* Fox and had nearly a $7 million budget. Say what you will about 22 Jump Street (I loved it) and Transformers 4(I hated it) but at least they are good looking films and in the case of 22 Jump Street, have a good script. Dark Was the Night and Late Phases are indie horror films and they are not only much better films but also have better effects and they were made for much less, also the acting in those films blows everybody on their arse in The Pyramid.
How this was not a SyFy Original film, I will never know.
Key word you blew over was decent...
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Well, what I consider a decent film is a film that has either all above average qualities or maybe uneven qualities (ex. great acting, weak script). That's not to say there aren't bad films that I enjoy that I rated on here a 5 or 6 which usually goes for decent in my opinion that are good films, I enjoy quite a lot of old school B horror films. But when I say decent, I mean a solid film that has problems but comes out just over the top. This is of course all subjective, my decent could be way different than your view of a decent film.
shareLeft Behind was the worst film that I watched, and I found it much worse than the movies on that list. No entertainment value whatsoever and painful to endure. Transformers is meant to entertain children and imagine it succeeds quite well at this goal. 22 Jump Street certainly had some laughs and it has >7 rating on IMDB and from critics, so it's rather silly to include it in a conversation about worst movie.
sharenot the worst movie...
had a couple of interesting points...
I give it a 5
As far as horror movies go, it's definitely up there with Ouija. It went dangerously close to so-bad-it's-good territory, which at least made it entertaining. I nearly walked out of Ouija (the overdramatic teens in the theatre didn't help).
shareI'm sure this is right up there among the worst. What an awful piece of garbage. For those who think something of this movie, tell me what scene you felt was even remotely interesting or captivating. The only one I felt was novel enough was the soldier getting folded in half. I expect more than one from a horror film.
Btw, I thought As Above So Below was far, far better than this.
A) Arguing about what is the "worst movie" is always a fruitless argument. It's always a matter of taste. Quite frankly, this is not a great movie, but, it certainly isn't the worst. I've "seen" movies that were unwatchable, and this wasn't one of those.
B) Why people don't like "found footage" movies. Well, I don't like them on the average because they are dull, murky, and jerkyily filmed.
Bad acting, even by good actors, is encouraged.
And the last reason, and it is the most important one, is that you already know the ending within the first five minutes. They all die. Period.
C) This is a bad movie because it has CGI creatures? Right, this is one of the dumbest statements about creature features ever. CGI is only bad, when it is done badly, and the CGI effects here just ain't that bad.
D) This is not that bad a movie, it is not that good either. I liked it, but it still is only worth a "C".